Monday, September 1, 2008

When Your Words Come Back to Bite You in the Butt

Writing over at Slate, Joe Conason dug up some of the right-wing response to the first woman nominated to be vice president.

Here, for your reading pleasure, is a nugget from Bill Buckley's National Review, in August 1984:

The Democrats will attempt to project the issue as 'whether a woman can be Vice President,' a point the Republicans can cheerfully concede, returning to the question of whether this woman in particular should be the Vice President…. Mrs. Ferraro is manifestly an affirmative-action nominee. She has been in the House only since 1979 and cannot be said, on the record, to be qualified to be President….